Application

Text category

Here you can use F4 input help to select the application area to which the text elements are assigned:

Data element, domain fixed value, function code, frame, list, menu, message, tree node, push button, popup, quick info (tooltip), title, tabstrip, text table, text (unspecified)

Program/Transact.

Here you can restrict the display to individual xSuite modules.

Whether text elements can be selected depends on the application area selected under Text category.

The following additional text categories can be selected here:

Function code, frame, list, menu, message, tree node, push button, popup, quick info (tooltip), title, tabstrip, text (unspecified).

Object

This field is used for further selection based on the selected application area under Text category. These text elements are created as globally applicable, not program-specific. They are mainly DDIC elements.

Whether text elements can be selected depends on the application area selected under Text category. The following additional text types can be selected here:

Text table, data element, fixed domain value.

Text

Here you can restrict the view for editing or translating text elements to concrete text objects. In doing so, case sensitive characters must be used.

Language

You can either edit one of the standard languages supplied or translate it into another language.

To edit one of the standard languages delivered, enter the abbreviation of the standard language here: DE = German, DK = Danish, EN = English, FR = French, NL = Dutch. In addition, activate the Maintenance Mode option.

To translate one of the standard languages into another language, enter the abbreviation of the target language here. Enter the source language and activate the Translation mode option.

Source language

To translate one of the standard languages into another language, enter the abbreviation of the source language here: DE = German, DK = Danish, EN = English, FR = French, NL = Dutch.

Enter a target language and activate the Translation mode option.

Faulty records only

If the checkbox is activated, only the faulty text objects will be selected.

Text elements that contain a message are regarded as incorrect. This includes, for example, blank text elements or text elements that exceed the permitted length.

Modif. elements only

If the checkbox is activated, only text elements that have been edited will be selected.

Maintenance mode

Activate this option to edit one of the standard languages delivered.

The edited text elements will be added and can be deleted at any time. The delivered text elements remain unchanged.

To edit a language, select the desired text element in the table. Via the button Append line, a copy of the selected text element is created. The text of the language element can be edited in this copy.

The text element table then contains two entries for this text element. The modified changed text element is always what is used. To display the original text element again, the changed entry must be removed from the table.

Further information can be found at Overview of columns in maintenance mode for text elements.

Translation mode

Activate this option to translate one of the delivered standard languages into another language.

We recommend that you use an Excel export for translation.

To access the translation mode, you must specify two languages: the standard language in the Source language field and the target language in the Language field.

Both languages are displayed in translation mode in the following view. Only the target language can be edited. The entries in the source language cannot be changed.

Further information can be found at Columns – Translation mode for text elements.